If you have Translation Editors for both of the projects please update their permissions. It’s now possible to add Translation Editors to sub-projects like BuddyPress or bbPress. 🎁 (If you found something broken please report it at the comments or in #1101.)

I have in the past emailed the validators for each language directly, but this uses up a lot of my time, and I always feel like I’m nagging people.

While I am here, I would like to complement the Turkish translators who I emailed last week and have already got Turkish up from ~30% to 50%, with another 500 strings waiting review — which is a great improvement, and thanks to that team.

We will also try and grow the local communities so each locale has more validators. Hopefully this will help with getting the biggest projects to 100%.

Having more translators also helps. Usually if people spend some time working on something they want to see it shipped and they look for the people who can make it happen. If they don’t react, people volunteer to be validators themselves. And often they succeed.

So it wouldn’t hurt to publicly look for translators.

And now I’m gonna shut up and go translate 14 pages of BuddyPress strings to bg_BG

Thanks for your complementary words Paul but it’s our bad that we forced you to e-mail us. Your e-mail triggered us and we are validating/translating buddyPress project now. First step is clearing waiting translations and then untranslated strings. Meet you at 100% :).

Hi,
I translated all BuddyPress project to Turkish. I would like to upload my translation to https://translate.wordpress.org/ if possible. It seems we dont have a validator or manager in BuddyPress Turkish section. Who should i contact about it?

(PS: there is lots of mistranslation and different approaches to word’s meanings in current project translations and i fixed those too.)

I would like to ask regarding the translation plugin BuddyPress, currently listed Serbian language and that the translation began to work with the Cyrillic alphabet. I’m interested in if there is a possibility to add Serbian (Latin), which would serve to create a translation that would not use Cyrillic letters.

I started to do the translation, but I saw after a few translated phrases that provided for Cyrillic letters, and I’m interested to do the translation, which would use the Latin alphabet, because we are such a better fit in my projects.

As I have found meaningful place to ask this question somewhere else, I wrote it here.

Not all untranslated strings are showed. How did I found that:
1) went through all untranslated strings,
2) exported the po file of everything ru_RU
3) opened in Poedit and noticed that some strings appeared to be untranslated, although they are not listed under Untranslated filter in GlotPress.
4) translated them in Poedit and imported into GlotPress
5) got the message that 16 new strings were translated.

So in general – untranslated strings were not showing under Untranslated filter in Glotpress.

Perhaps because I have already fixed that Those 40 should stay there. When I was operating – thos 16 were not in glotpress.
It was easy to track, as they all are short strings (like Notifications %s), while those 40 are quite long strings.

How are we to know what the trunk projects gives us when it’s such a disarray? All these projects has been requested multiple times by different people. Do we really have to nag every time new projects need to be created?

What happened to the discussed planning for polyglots? Are we going anywhere at all?

It’s since polyglots platform is born that quite at every release I ask to have the platform updated and every time i got the promise in future will be. Since now nothing happened, every time we are asking for branch and I REALLY can’t understand why after 3.8 string freeze the relative brache didn’t appear. It’s an hystorically habit to think to WP project more from a english centric point of view cause large parte of sites use it in english but this lack of care for polyglots it’s first an uncare for the hundreds of people that belive in WP and spend theyr time to make it available ofr his country people.

Looks like Nacins is the one that always make the new brach (or I’m wrong?) Maybe it’s time to delegate to someone else cause he’s a lead developer and i thought he has very busy days.

Maybe postponing for a week or two the nex release an do sone love to make the necessary automatic stuff to have the polyglot platform always up to date easily it’s not something that sound so bad.

Guys, chill. Please. The “Development” branch is 3.8. It is frozen. There are no string changes being pushed to it from trunk right now. After the initial point release, the next steps are to create the new branch, do a mass export and import of the current strings to populate this branch, and re-start string harvesting. We’ve been doing this pretty much the same way for years now. Heck, I’m actually following Nikolay’s own instructions in doing so. Why this is done is for a number of reasons:

A lot of locales are building versions in the time between the major release and first minor release, and moving around branches can disrupt that process and make it more difficult for those translators.

A lot of strings sometimes quickly change early in a cycle. Not all of these are necessarily intended, and a lot of them will change very quickly. I don’t want to give you guys extra work for strings that will disappear in a week. Only after a few weeks of “alpha” does it make sense to release strings. I feel very bad about giving you extra work.

It gives all of you a much-needed break.

3.8.1 was released late last week, and a lot of locales have now acted on 3.8.1, so I’ll be doing the steps I’ve described above this week. We’ll continue to do it this way until GlotPress gains any kind of cross-project string syncing or branching.

I will update both BuddyPress and bbPress this week as well.

In the meantime, I have renamed “Development” to “3.8.x” so everyone is clear what the source of the strings are. Sorry for the confusion there.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain this all, and make the necessary changes to the WP project!

That being said, the BuddyPress and bbPress projects still a few versions, which confuses translator who which to work on currently-stable versions rather than on the Dev version. BP is 3 versions behing, bbP 2 versions behind.